The Sustainable Hour no 340 on 11 November 2020 prepares us for the National Day of Action against new fossil fuels which will be held on Saturday 28 November 2020.

We have the women from Friday’s For Future Online who are part of the organising committee for this important day. As well as being a day of protest, it is also a day to acknowledge and celebrate all the “ordinary” Aussies who day in day out are fighting for the fossil fuel age to end.

The idea for this National Day of Action #ProtectOurFutureNotFossilFuels arose when fracking permits were approved around Narrabri in New South Wales. This was in-spite of thousands of objections against it.

A local farmer, Margaret Fleck, was particularly incensed at this decision and, in true Aussie spirit reached out to her networks, to see what could be done about this injustice. Law student Sonya McKay from Newcastle and Hunter Valley knitting nanna loop Lynn Benn soon joined her. This built onto the momentum which started at an online rally on 5 October 2020 and has grown to such an extent that now there are at least 60 groups, which include thousands of determined Australians from all over the country wanting to be involved in actions during the day as well as the online forum that night.

In listening to these women, there is no underestimating the extent of their resolve to stop new fossil fuel projects no matter where they are.

Our other guest in The Tunnel today is ex-A League player and Perth resident Chris Harold. Chris continues our focus on the important role that climate concerned elite athletes have in using their position of privilege and influence to speak publicly about their concerns.

Chris, like our other guests today has well and truly answered the call to speak out and will no doubt continue to do so as he interacts with the A-League Players Association.

Colin Mockett has us zooming all over the planet as usual in his Global Outlook. The main focus is on the results of the US elections and what that means for the world. He also beams about the increased number of Greens candidates who were elected in the recent Victorian local government elections. Finally we hear some bad news for penguins and seals and their breeding grounds at South Georgia Island.

That’s it from The Tunnel as our Covid-hiatus gets ever closer to ending. Till next week – Live the difference!

“Just within a matter of days, we were able to have such a large amount of response to people not wanting a gas-led recovery, not wanting the Narrabri conditional approval and being really unhappy and angry about it.”~ Sonya McKay, Fridays For Future Online

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